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Land, Volume 12, Issue 3

2023 March - 206 articles

Cover Story: Innovations concerning the adoption of sharing and the circular economy in sustainable forest management are mandatory in order to support sustainable development, especially in small forest holdings. The Forest Sharing® platform, which was launched in Italy, offers an opportunity to restart managing uncontrollable and abandoned small forest properties through a sustainable, multifunctional, collaborative, and sharing approach. This study aims to assess the location of forests and forest owners who are registered on the platform to better understand the fragmentation of forest ownership, comparing the current situations in Italy and Europe more generally. Moreover, in this work, we present the different GIS analyses implemented on the platform to better understand the state of 9585 cadaster forest parcels registered by 644 users. View this paper
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Articles (206)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,683 Views
18 Pages

Side-Deep Fertilization Stabilizes Double-Cropping Rice Yield, Increases N and P Utilization, and Reduces N and P Losses

  • Kun Hou,
  • Lian Zhang,
  • Ping Liu,
  • Shifu He,
  • Xiangmin Rong,
  • Jianwei Peng,
  • Yuping Zhang,
  • Chang Tian and
  • Yongliang Han

22 March 2023

(1) Background: the broadcast is an outdated fertilization method with a low fertilizer-utilization rate and environmental problems, which seriously restricts the development of agriculture. (2) Methods: Under a machine-transplanted rice with side-de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,613 Views
24 Pages

22 March 2023

Over the past two decades, the relative socio-economic importance of land-based sectors has declined in comparison to non-land-based businesses such as tourism, food and beverage activities. However, policy implementation and research have primarily...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,599 Views
22 Pages

Agricultural Intensification Reduces the Portfolio of Wetland Ecosystem Services: European Danube River Lowlands as a Global Biodiversity Hotspot

  • Tudor Racoviceanu,
  • Constantin Cazacu,
  • Mihai Adamescu,
  • Relu Giucă,
  • Magdalena Bucur,
  • Mariia Fedoriak and
  • Per Angelstam

21 March 2023

Anthropogenic landscape transformations have promoted the provision of ecosystem services (ES) at the expense of other ES, biodiversity, and human well-being. We analysed the transformation portfolios of ES provisions, the costs of transformation, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,906 Views
16 Pages

The Spatiotemporal Pattern and Driving Mechanism of Urban Sprawl in China’s Counties

  • Xu Yang,
  • Xuan Zou,
  • Xueqi Liu,
  • Qixuan Li,
  • Siqian Zou and
  • Ming Li

21 March 2023

Cities in China do not constitute a few global metropolises, but are characterized by heterogeneity. Studying counties can give us a comprehensive picture of urban sprawl in China. This study measured the sprawl index of 1880 counties in China from 2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,140 Views
18 Pages

21 March 2023

Research on carbon emission is an important basis for solving global climate problems, and it is also one of the ways to quantitatively assess the impact of human activities. Cities are one of the main bearing spaces of human activities, and reasonab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,605 Views
17 Pages

21 March 2023

Due to the heterogeneity among households across locations, predicting the impacts of stay-at-home mitigation and lockdown strategies for COVID-19 control is crucial. In this study, we quantitatively assessed the effects of the Namibia government&rsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,884 Views
15 Pages

21 March 2023

With in-depth efforts in the national strategy of innovation-driven development, the demand for talent in cities is burgeoning. Cities in China have released a large number of preferential policies to attract talent as these cities look to gain an ed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,657 Views
22 Pages

21 March 2023

The general consensus is that physical activity can prevent and manage lifestyle-induced chronic diseases, and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) has been included in several guidelines of WHO as an indicative intensity standard. Numerous...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,493 Views
19 Pages

Dating Agricultural Terraces in the Mediterranean Using Luminescence: Recent Progress and Challenges

  • Aayush Srivastava,
  • Tim Kinnaird,
  • Christopher Sevara,
  • Justin Allen Holcomb and
  • Sam Turner

21 March 2023

Agricultural terraces provide farmers in hilly landscapes with effective ways to increase the area available for crops. They mitigate the risks of soil erosion and promote crop productivity by slowing surface water runoff and retaining moisture. As i...

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